on the ropes
informaldoing badly and likely to fail:
I think the business is finally on the ropes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unsuccessful (people and things)
- abortive
- achiever
- barren
- be dead in the water idiom
- botched
- counterproductive
- flatline
- frustrated
- futile
- go/get/head nowhere idiom
- inauspicious
- lame duck
- small-time
- stillborn
- struggling
- the doldrums
- unavailing
- unglued
- unpromising
- washed up
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